The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre of Las Chumberas. RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE: NEW FACILITIES HONOR AWARD. Fernando Menis, Architect. Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Image: Patricia Cámpora, Simona Rota, Photographers.
The Faith & Form International Awards Program for Religious Architecture & Art program is co-sponsored by Faith & Form, Partners for Sacred Places and Interfaith Design (ID, formerly IFRAA, the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, & Architecture), a knowledge community of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) based in Washington, D.C. The awards program was founded in 1978 with the goal of honoring the best in architecture, liturgical design and art for religious spaces, according to faithandformawards.com.
Entrants may submit multiple nominations, one at a time, for different projects in one or more award categories.
Entrants may submit multiple nominations, one at a time, for different projects in one or more award categories. A copy of each submission will be sent to the account email. Nominations may not be edited after they have been submitted.
Check out some past winning projects and find registration and application info 2022 Faith & Form International Awards Program.
Eligibility And Criteria
>Entries are welcome from architects, landscape architects, designers, artists, students, consultants, and religious or community organizations from around the world.
>All projects must be completed since January 2017. For architecture projects, “completion” is synonymous with “substantial completion” as defined in AIA documents governing project construction.
>Entries in the Religious Architecture, Adaptive Re-Use/Re-Purpose, and Sacred Landscape categories must have been designed by an architect registered per local regulation at the time of project completion. For multi-building projects, the architect submitting the project (or portion thereof) shall offer detailed evidence of authorship of each project portion submitted to this program.
>Project authorship will remain concealed throughout jury deliberations. If authorship is revealed on any portion of the submission including photos, plans, or narrative, the entry will be disqualified.
>All submissions must have owner’s consent for entry.
>Each entry in this Awards program is judged for the success with which the project has met its individual requirements or program. Entries are weighed individually, not competitively.
Recognition
>Printed citations
>Coverage in a special issue of Sacred Places magazine
>Project website on sacredplaces.org
>Recognition by Interfaith Design at the AIA National Convention (as conditions permit)
